Self-Development and Goal Setting

Self-development helps you to work more effectively, improve your performance, set meaningful personal goals and develop your career. Discover the tools you need to take responsibility for your own development, including self-reflection and self-appraisal.
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12 Minutes

SMART Goals

SMART goals help to clarify your ideas, focus your efforts, motivate you to use your time and resources productively, to achieve what you want at work and in life. Includes template and worked example.

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9 Minutes

Possibilities

Expectation and performance form a virtuous circle. Find out how you can increase the chances that possibilities will become reality.

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2 Minutes

Creating Smarter Objectives

This matrix is ideal for organising your goals in a logical manner. By creating S.M.A.R.T.E.R. goals you will be able to track your own progress and focus on the end result.

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4 Minutes

Defining Benefits

This simple exercise will help you to decide if you should undertake a development activity by prompting you to consider its benefits from a range of relevant perspectives.

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4 Minutes

Top Tips for Effective Self Appraisal

Regular self appraisal is an important aspect of an inclusive performance review framework. As a result, many organisations use self appraisal to encourage their employees to evaluate and assess their own performance. If you have been asked to undertake a self appraisal, this article offers tips to ensure you conduct the process with fairness and objectivity.

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30 Minutes

Help Me!

In this podcast, we talk to Marianne Power, author of "Help Me!", about her unbelievable year spent closely following the advice of 12 self-help books.

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105 Minutes

Drafting Your Personal Development Plan

This is a team session comprising a number of exercises and is designed to encourage your team to take personal responsibility for drafting and actioning their own personal development plan. Allow 1 hour and 45 minutes for completion.